Some Facts

The name of the horse in the American Christmas song "Jingle Bells" is Bob.

The three richest people in the world own assets that exceed the *combined* gross domestic products of the world's poorest 48 countries.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.

Life expectancy in Afganistan in 2004, was about 44 years - vs about 80 for the "first world".

Annie wants to go on a picnic.

Recent studies have calculated that about 50% of all food produced in the USA and Canada is wasted, spoiled or discarded.

More people are killed by dogs in just the USA each year, than all the known shark fatalities in the world for the past 100 years.

Annie wants to go see "Batman Begins."

There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

One of the most mysterious languages in the world is that spoken by the Basque people of northeastern Spain. It is not obviously related to any known language group, and many linguists think it may date all the way back to neolithic Europe: for example, its word for "axe" is closely related to the word for "stone".

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

"Be Yourself" by Audioslave is a very good song.